Please Post Tuition Discount Promotions, Scholarships, and Offers

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  1. dannyasingh

    dannyasingh New Member

    Can you please post links to regionally accredited colleges that are offering tuition discounts, offers, and/or similar promotions? This includes colleges that are offering scholarships for new students who choose to enroll. I do not care if the colleges are for-profit or non-profit. Thank you so much and please take care.
     
  2. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

  3. Phdtobe

    Phdtobe Well-Known Member

    Scholarship
    Touro offers up to 40% discount plus goodies like free iPads and free courses.
     
  4. jrobert556

    jrobert556 New Member

    Subscription Levels | truED | Champlain College

    Champlain has discounted tuition programs with many companies and also the federal government. My tuition is around $133 a credit hour with my subscription that lets me take up to 36 cr hrs a year.
     
  5. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    If you are not married to your current job, you could work for an employer that offers tuition reimbursement. Companies are INCREASING coverage and tuition programs. A survey by Society for HR Management, more than half of large employers surveyed offer undergraduate tuition reimbursement. Change teams.
     
  6. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Ever since the demise of the defined benefit retirement plan--and the onset of the 401K--employers have been less interested in investing in employees' development. Lifelong employment is gone. Employees can take their retirement investments and move them. Nothing is as permanent as before.

    As a result, employers are less inclined to spend money on transferable skills--learning you'll just take to your new employer. That means that employees need to take a stronger role in their own development. And it also means employers need to make better decisions about who attends this training.
     
  7. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Part of the problem with such a list is that many of these "discounts" are time limited so that people reading this list even a couple of months from now may find many of the offers have expired. At the same time, discount offers that do not expire are not really discounts. This is similar to the carpet store that has a perpetual sale. Having said all that I'll mention that many state universities offer free tuition to people over the age of 65. Once upon a time I started to compile a list of universities that offered that deal but didn't get too far. I have a vague memory that most of the New England states have that deal.
     
  8. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    all you had to do was ask Kizmet- I made that list and put it in chapter 7 of new book lol :)
    These colleges are 100% free tuition for seniors. The age at which a state calls you a senior differs slightly, but roughly around 60 - 65.
    Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and South Carolina.
     
  9. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    SHRM Online - Society for Human Resource ManagementThis is the site/surveys I use to investigate HR trends, and everything I found supports the opposite. Employers ARE investing in their people. That's not to say they don't require service in return for that investment but isn't working the goal anyway? What seems to be the trend is that big employers are slower to hire new grads, and more likely to invest in current workforce. My speculation is that it's Russian Roulette when you hire a new grad, but a seasoned worker has already been vetted, trained, invested in, and has skin in the game. This is not my area of expertise, it's certainly more your wheelhouse.
     
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  10. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Very nice. Thanks Jennifer.
     

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